Debasmita Das

Debasmita joined Keystone in 2024 and serves as an Economist in the Seattle Office. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University, where her research focused on applied microeconomics, particularly in public finance, household finance, and labor, utilizing causal inference and machine learning techniques. Debasmita's research has examined the effect of work requirement rules for welfare benefits, interaction of social security benefit system with retirement decisions of American workers, explainability of credit risk models, and a variety of other topics.

Before joining Keystone, she worked at Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab, where she used data from Equifax and implemented predictive models to better understand consumer credit risk behavior.

In her free time, Debasmita enjoys hiking, cooking, watching soccer, and strategizing for Fantasy Premier League.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University
• M.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University
• B.S. in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta